Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

In April 2021, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how identity thieves were exploiting lax authentication on Experian’s PIN retrieval page to unfreeze consumer credit files. A few days after that April 2021 story, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that an Experian API was exposing the credit scores of most Americans.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho , of Portugal — with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Curiously, the fraudsters had taken out a loan in Jim’s name with MSF using his real email address — the same email address the fraudsters had used to impersonate him to MSF back in May 2021. 16, 2021, the U.S. ” Buckley notes that on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Department of Justice (DOJ) for a 2021 breach at T-Mobile that exposed the personal information of at least 76.6 In January 2024, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that prosecutors in Florida had charged a 19-year-old alleged Scattered Spider member named Noah Michael Urban with wire fraud and identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

” In contrast, Trump’s Dumps focuses on selling card data stolen from hacked point-of-sale devices, and it benefited greatly from the January 2021 retirement of Joker’s Stash , which for years dwarfed most other carding shops by volume. The remaining 34% have come from over 200 countries.” financial institutions.

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